You have a mythological beauty
You have the eye of someone I have seen
Outside of ordinary situations
Even outside of dreams
You lie in bed at night and watch the lines of headlights through your screen
There is a child inside you who's trying to raise a child in me

If you wanna leave
You just have to say
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way

You cut the flesh of your left thumb
Using your boyfriend's knife
Seventeen, you took his cum
And you gave birth to your first life
You gave Andrew a family who you thought would love and take better care
I have an older brother I don't know
He could be anywhere

If you wanna leave
You just have to say
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way

Rented a house in Niswah, Minnesota
Shrapnel and oil cans, rhubarb in the yard
I built a ladder out of metal pieces
Father was working hard
Standing beneath the oak tree by the front door
You were inside baking bread
Sister came out and put her arms around me
Blood gushing from my head
You held me in the backseat with a dishrag, soaking up blood with your eyes
I was just five and you were twenty-seven
Praying "don't let my baby die"

If you wanna leave
You just have to say
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way
You're all caught up inside
But you know the way

So much more to live your life
To walk the floor
To say goodnight
Do you leave your light on?
Do you leave your light on?

You're all caught up inside
But you know the way


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    In childhood all children’s parents are mythological figures. Beauty is in the eyes of us, and, behold these giants. Huh..wow. We don’t realize til later they’re kids too, til we reach their ages. Then we’re like, how did they? What? That’s insane!
    We don’t realize the extraordinary moments. Compromises they made to make you who you are for better or other til much later. “I was just five and you were 27” but, then it went. So it went. Lights left on. Too many seven elevens, and we are thankful for all of them, ten years later. At 11 I did a swing my 6 year old sister with my hands gripping hers til I couldn’t stop spinning and she, I like to think, inexorably slipped from my grip and flung into a wooden 90’s era tv console. I had to wish and pray she’d be ok. She cried but uptighted in a second. Weirdest moment was hugging her as she was crying gently while glancing down and seeing a huge bleeding flash at the back of her skull. It was almost more disturbing that as the youngest kid she was over it and like whatever. You launched me into the wall and split my head open whatever man I’ll get over it. And she did and is the gutsiest person I know. Not cause and effect but still. She’s amazing. Off topic but when was I on topic.

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